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May 01, 2005
Two new books (as reviewed here) that look worth adding to one's reading list:
Four Tenths of an Acre : Reflections on a Gardening Life, by Laurie Lisle: "Lisle's range, wider than her long and narrow garden, takes in a world of horticulturists (both growers and fanciers) from well-known literary figures like Hawthorne and Wharton to those revered for their gardening-centric works, such as Gertrude Jekyll. Having recently moved north from Manhattan, Lisle immerses herself not only in her new home but in the depths of its three-century history, unraveling the construction of a local Georgian manor and analyzing the drawing of a young girl that Lisle finds at a neighboring town's historical society" (from the Publisher's Weekly review on amazon.com).The Driveway Diaries : A Dirt Road Almanac, by Tim Brookes: "While working on a doomed book about commuting, Tim Brookes developed an odd affection for dirt roads. This led him to study his own driveway, a tiny dirt road, a masterpiece of inconvenience, a many-mooded borderlands in the balance of power between order and chaos" (from the alibris description).
Posted by Miki at May 1, 2005 07:56 PM